Clip & Save: Joe Biden’s gaffes. So far

Becoming vice president has, until recently, been a ticket to anonymity.

A man was picked to be vice-president, and if his ticket was elected, he showed up at the Inauguration. That was the last time he was ever seen. He waved, he posed with the president, and then he disappeared, never to be heard from again.

Dick Cheney made the job his own in his own inimitable way. He was never in the public eye, but he maintained a visible presence in the minds of Democrats everywhere.

And now, vice president Joe Biden, taking a cue from Cheney, is determined to make the veep a household name in his own peculiar way.

Give it a rest.President Obama had cordial meetings with Venezuelan madman Hugo Chavez over the weekend. Apparently, in the minds of Obama haters, common courtesy is a problem, as is the 55 minutes Obama spent listening to Daniel Ortega rail against the United States.

No one has any good alternatives; they’re just looking for new reasons to be mad. Maybe Obama could’ve picked up a chair and smashed it against Chavez’ head and then splashed hot coffee in Ortega’s eyes. Or he could have smiled, listened, and then gone outside and whined like a little baby.

Remember — when punching out other world leaders is outlawed, only outlaws will punch out world leaders.

Now someone has just whipped a web page that implies amateur singing sensation Susan Boyle should do a porno. There’s no chance it will happen. There’s no real deal in place. It’s just something that the Web does.

Save this phone for a rainy dayJapanese phone maker KDDI au is offering a new, solar-powered cell phone. This is the phone you use when you don’t want to speak to anyone. The call starts, and if you don’t like what you hear, you say “Whoa! It’s getting cloudy. I might lose reception.” Then you hang up. Problem solved. There’s not a lot of information about this available, mainly because the announcement is in Japanese. Good luck.

Bob Gates – peacenik?The Secretary of Defense has been taking some shots to this dignity via right wing blogs and pundits for going soft in his new budget. But that’s not the case. “Different” isn’t always “bad.” After announcing his budget, Gates sounded downright hawkish during two days of lectures at the Army and Navy War Colleges.

Ashton Kutcher is the king of the nerdsThe D-list pretty boy is the first person to gather 1 million followers on Twitter during a week in which he actively campaigned and begged for enough followers to beat CNN to that ridiculous milestone. Being the Twitter King is like being The Nerd King; yes, you’re a king, but you and your followers are all nerds.

Roy Bragg

Clip & Save: Joe Biden’s gaffes. So far

Becoming vice president has, until recently, been a ticket to anonymity.

A man was picked to be vice-president, and if his ticket was elected, he showed up at the Inauguration. That was the last time he was ever seen. He waved, he posed with the president, and then he disappeared, never to be heard from again.

Dick Cheney made the job his own in his own inimitable way. He was never in the public eye, but he maintained a visible presence in the minds of Democrats everywhere.

And now, vice president Joe Biden, taking a cue from Cheney, is determined to make the veep a household name in his own peculiar way.